Grade: 7 Unit: 3 Week: 5 Content: ELA Dates: 12/10-12/14
Theme Essential Question: How does real world determination inform the depiction of determined literary characters?
Essential Questions:
How do characters show determination in a negative way through their actions and/or words?
How do early experiences shape and influence a character’s development?
How can one determined person have such great influence, negatively or positively, over those around them?
Standards
R.L.7.2 Determine a theme of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text.
R.L.7.3 Analyze how particular elements of a drama interact.
R.L.7.5 Analyze how a drama’s form contributes to its meaning.
W.7.2 Write explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas.
L.7.1.b Choose complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
Ongoing Standards
R.L.7.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
R.L.7.1 Key Ideas and Details: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
R.I.7.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary non-fiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
W.7.9 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
W.7.10 Range of Writing: Write routinely over extended time frames (times for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
SL.7.1 Comprehension and Collaboration: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL.7.1.a Comprehension and Collaboration: Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
SL.7.1.b Comprehension and Collaboration: Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
SL.7.1.c Comprehension and Collaboration: Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
SL.7.1d Comprehension and Collaboration: Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify your own views.
L.7.1 Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.7.3 Knowledge of Language: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
L.7.4 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.7.4.a Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word of phrase.
L.7.4.c Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital prints to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part growth.
L.7.6 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension.
Objectives: The Learner Will
TLW write creatively, recreating a scene from the play to reflect another character’s experiences.
TLW read analytically to determine the reasons behind a character’s actions and the possible effects of those actions.
Assessment Product
Students will rewrite a scene from the perspective of a different character. Consider how that character deals with Scrooge’s behavior and the determination they must have to overcome his negative attitude/influence.
Key Questions (match Standard)
How determined do others have to be to overcome negative influence/attitudes?
How can the decisions we make today affect us tomorrow?
Observable Student Behaviors (Performance)
Students will write their rewritten scene in play format.
Vocabulary
ELA
Drama Allegory
Suggested Activities (see Legend to highlight MCO and [HYS])
In literature and art, an allegory is used to symbolically express a deeper meaning through a story acted out by human, animal or mythical characters. Describe some characters in A Christmas Carol that might allegorize qualities such as determination, virtue, greed, honesty, generosity, faith, stinginess, hatred, love, etc.
Grade: 7 Unit: 3 Week: 5 Content: ELA Dates: 12/10-12/14
Theme Essential Question: How does real world determination inform the depiction of determined literary characters?
Essential Questions:
Standards
Ongoing Standards
Objectives: The Learner Will
Assessment
Product
Key Questions (match Standard)
Observable Student Behaviors (Performance)
Vocabulary
Allegory
Suggested Activities (see Legend to highlight MCO and [HYS])
Homework
Terminology for Teachers
Ethnicity/Culture | Immigration/Migration | Intercultural Competence | Socialization | Racism/Discrimination
[High Yield Strategies]
Similarities/Differences | Summarizing/Notetaking | Reinforcing/Recognition | Homework/Practice |
Non-Linguistic representation | Cooperative Learning | Objectives/Feedback |
Generating-Testing Hypothesis | Cues, Questions, Organizers
Resources
Professional Texts
Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Art, Music, and Media
- Audio Clip of A Christmas Carol
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=8EE9155C-B1D7-4738-87A4-A3A52D0D4B86&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=USManipulatives
Games
Videos
Sight Words
SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons
Other Activities, etc.
Language
Arts
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